Centralized Redirection Server ?

I want to do some things with redirection in a cluster of caches that
require keeping state information on clients. Traffic to the machines
in the cluster is distributed by destination (web server) address, so
all clients talk to all caches. Obviously, this makes keeping state
information on clients difficult across all caches.

What does anyone think about the idea of a "redirection server," which
receives and answers redirection requests from Squid caches in a
cluster via UDP transactions, vaguely like ICP works today. In fact,
it looks like ICP itself would be workable with the addition of a new
opcode or two. The transaction could look like a query/hit/miss type
transaction, except the the server could return a different URL.

Dave
Received on Sun Mar 07 1999 - 08:44:59 MST